A well written piece about peace Ashley! Glad to learn of the symbol, I'll plant and wear it. Thank you Jim Wilder for all your efforts. It's great humans like Jim and these movements that give me hope. I believe the roadmap out of the darkness is clear to see if we stay open. I believe even the darkest dankest corners, formed by ignorance, weakness, fear, hate, greed, and cowardice can and will be over come. I believe the darkness will be light work for the united, brilliant, courageous, strong, expanding, light of curiosity, understanding, caring, love, and peace. Let's Go! Together, one sunflower at a time 🌻
Love this piece about Jim Wilder's vision, and his humble work spreading joy, beauty, and upliftment, and visioning a new Unity, one bright yellow flower at a time - absolutely the medicine for our time. And great photo, Laura Hagar Rush!
I need to plant sunflowers, next year when we start gardening! (Also: sunflowers were well loved by the makers in the Arts & Crafts movement, around the turn of the last century!)
If there is a Spirit of West County, Jim Wilder and his sunflowers are what I would like to think it’s about. And I would like to see this spirit travel to Santa Rosa and beyond.
And thereby hangs a tale. This story idea came from a friend who thought Jim Wilder was from West County. I assigned the story to a new writer; she did the story not knowing we don't really do Santa Rosa stories. We paid her. So now I have a nice story from a marginal area. If it had been from Healdsburg or Petaluma or even eastern Santa Rosa, I wouldn't have run it, but edge of the Laguna on the Santa Rosa side near Hwy 12 is at least arguably West County. Plus I figured the topic would appeal to a large segment of our audience.
He lives on the west side of Santa Rosa just off Fulton. If community includes a geographic aspect as is suggested by this paper's name he is not in the West County community
I didn't know who started this (until your article) but I've been planting sunflowers in support of the No Kings marches. Thanks for this write up.
I love this so much. What a wonderful way to change and frame a narrative!
A well written piece about peace Ashley! Glad to learn of the symbol, I'll plant and wear it. Thank you Jim Wilder for all your efforts. It's great humans like Jim and these movements that give me hope. I believe the roadmap out of the darkness is clear to see if we stay open. I believe even the darkest dankest corners, formed by ignorance, weakness, fear, hate, greed, and cowardice can and will be over come. I believe the darkness will be light work for the united, brilliant, courageous, strong, expanding, light of curiosity, understanding, caring, love, and peace. Let's Go! Together, one sunflower at a time 🌻
Love this piece about Jim Wilder's vision, and his humble work spreading joy, beauty, and upliftment, and visioning a new Unity, one bright yellow flower at a time - absolutely the medicine for our time. And great photo, Laura Hagar Rush!
I need to plant sunflowers, next year when we start gardening! (Also: sunflowers were well loved by the makers in the Arts & Crafts movement, around the turn of the last century!)
If there is a Spirit of West County, Jim Wilder and his sunflowers are what I would like to think it’s about. And I would like to see this spirit travel to Santa Rosa and beyond.
Nice story but not much West County to it
And thereby hangs a tale. This story idea came from a friend who thought Jim Wilder was from West County. I assigned the story to a new writer; she did the story not knowing we don't really do Santa Rosa stories. We paid her. So now I have a nice story from a marginal area. If it had been from Healdsburg or Petaluma or even eastern Santa Rosa, I wouldn't have run it, but edge of the Laguna on the Santa Rosa side near Hwy 12 is at least arguably West County. Plus I figured the topic would appeal to a large segment of our audience.
Because he's lived here for 20 years and is a community member, to me this feels West County relevant. And I agree-- nice story!
He lives on the west side of Santa Rosa just off Fulton. If community includes a geographic aspect as is suggested by this paper's name he is not in the West County community
See the "arguably" argument above :)